Story- Real/tangible, past

Dream- Imagination, future, can be unachievable

• Mrs. Mallard has heart troubles and has a dead husband

• Brent Mallard died in a railroad accident

  • he gets a name and she doesn’t

  • he’s dead but has an identity

  • she gets the wife of

• Josephine gets a name

• Mrs. Mallard cries and is exhausted, goes into seclusion

• Springtime

• Has a moment of intelligence; an idea; waiting for it fearfully; trying to fight it away but can’t

• Two slender white hands (symbol of women)

  • aspire; considered beauty

  • weak and vulnerable

• She says free, free, free

  • live for herself

  • gains a name “Louise”; gains identity

  • changed entirely in a day

  • She now carries herself like a goddess of victory; not hunched over crying, she’s spread out

• She died when her husband came back